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title: Spinning round fast confuses the balance organ in your inner ear, an… — Balance and falling well · tree and pragmatics
description: Spinning round fast confuses the balance organ in your inner ear, and that is why you feel dizzy afterwards. Who acts: Spinning, that, you. A sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Balance and falling well, sentence 11

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Spinning round fast confuses the balance organ in your inner ear, and that is why you feel dizzy afterwards.

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**Who acts:** Spinning, that, you · **What happens:** spin round, confuse, be, feel · **To what, where:** balance organ, inner ear

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Balance and falling well» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spinning, that, you), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:everyday:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:11
# text = Spinning round fast confuses the balance organ in your inner ear, and that is why you feel dizzy afterwards.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = everyday
# lesson = 002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1
1	Spinning	spin	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	csubj	_	Agree=R7-rel-agree|Haiku=4:nsubj
2	round	round	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	fast	fast	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	1	advmod	_	_
4	confuses	confuse	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	balance	balance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	organ	organ	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	inner	inner	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	nsubj	_	_
15	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
16	why	why	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	conj	_	_
17	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	feel	feel	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
19	dizzy	dizzy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spin round** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | fast, round *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **confuse** | present | Spinning | the balance organ |  | your inner ear |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent organ=Patient |
| 3 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | why *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **feel** | present | you |  |  |  |  | afterwards, dizzy *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Licence: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)**, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, `mova-school-agreed-en.conllu`) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence `school:everyday:002-balance-and-falling-well.lesson:11`.

**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R7-rel-agree ×1. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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